Ramokgopa did not say when he believed the country would leave load shedding behind, saying he would not make any public pronouncements about dates.
And despite some positive signs, SA was still on track for its worst-ever year of load-shedding without"drastic improvements", he said.Ramokgopa said he was increasingly focusing on bottlenecks in SA's transmission grid, which were hampering an increase in generation capacity. He warned that SA could not quickly build desperately-needed new capacity unless the transmission constraints were fixed, particularly in the Northern Cape, Western Cape and Eastern Cape."We need to make it possible for private sector players to locate in those spaces where there is grid capacity."In times of uncertainty you need journalism you can trust.